What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way, the culminating point of this answer. I wish to repeat it together with the whole Church to Him, who manifested His love by means of the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, remaining with us 'to the close of the age'

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.